AIR for Javascript Developers Pocket Guide: Getting Started with Adobe AIR

by Mike Chambers, Mike Chambers, Daniel Dura

This book is the official guide to Adobe ® AIR[TM], written by members of the AIR team. With Adobe AIR, web developers can use technologies like HTML and JavaScript to build and deploy web applications to the desktop. Packed with examples, this book explains how AIR works and features recipes for performing common runtime tasks.

Part of the Adobe Developer Library, this concise pocket guide

Also included is a guide to AIR packages, classes, and command line tools. Once you understand the basics of building HTML- and JavaScript-based AIR applications, this book makes an ideal reference for tackling specific problems. It offers a quick introduction to a significant new development technology, which lets you combine the reach and ease of the Web with the power of the desktop.

208 pages, Paperback

First published April 18, 2008

Reviews

[Josh Green · Rating 5 out of 5]

The mini cookbook included in this is awesome. It's hard to find a lot of good literature on developing using Javascript since most of the developers who have begun using this are people familiar with Actionscript. I found the File API section included in the mini cookbook very helpful. Using the embedded database section I was able to just use the example in the book to create a quick SQLite connection to store and query data.